ABSTRACT

This chapter challenges the neoliberal individualizing orientations of mainstream representations of girls as climate activists. In contrast, it focuses on the relational and collective contours of activist’s engagements with each other and entanglements with the natural world. Drawing on a range of media by, for and about girls on the front lines of climate justice work, this chapter centers BIPOC organizers and their intersectional and decolonial strategies for change. This chapter conceptualizes their work in terms of caring, intimate counterpublics characterized by their situated, transformative and mutually caring dialogues.